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During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. You can read the first part here. The series...

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva...

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By admin Los Angeles Times | 05.09.2005
Not to apologize for Los Angeles officials, who truly screwed up by giving the state an excuse to reject L.A...
By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 05.07.2005
With the vote splitting along regional lines Friday, San Francisco beat out Sacramento and San Diego in the hard-fought competition...
By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.06.2005
Scientists from around the country -- and in at least one case from outside the country -- are enlisting in...
By admin San Jose Mercury News | 05.05.2005
FOR RESEARCH EFFORT TO SUCCEED, TAXPAYERS MUST TRUST HOW $3 BILLION IS HANDED OUT

Mercury News Editorial

Nearly six months...
By admin Sacramento Bee | 05.05.2005
For weeks, Sacramento and three other cities have been primping and preening to land a coveted title - Miss Stem...
By Charles Halpern | 05.05.2005

To Members of the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Finance Committee

Dear Chairman Angelides and Committee members:

The California...

California Capitol Building
By Steve Lawrence, Associated Press | 05.03.2005

With several lawmakers abstaining, an Assembly committee Tuesday rejected a bill that would ban the sale of cloned or genetically...

By Gallup, Gallup | 05.02.2005

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...